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                                        <h2>Establishment of Mathematics Division in NPL- <span class="date">1945 </span></h2>
                                        <p>After the end of the second world war there was some feeling amongst the scientists at Admiralty Computing Service and the Ministry of Supply that a National Mathematics Laboratory should be established to coordinate facilities and techniques relating to machine-aided computation. Hence they prepared a <i>Memorandum on the Centralization of Computation in a National Mathematical Laboratory</i>  and sent it to the secretary of the DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research).</p>

                                        <p>This eventually led to  a committee chaired by Sir <strong>Charles Darwin</strong>, Director of NPL (National Physics Laboratory) including senior staff from Ministry of Supply and Admiralty Computing Service. A report was then presented to the DSIR Advisory Council on 10<sup>th</sup> May 1944, recommending that a Central Mathematical Station should be established.<br/>
                                        The details of the report can be found  <a href = "http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/andersod/HoC/AlanTuringNet/AlanTuringNet.php"><strong>here</strong></a></p>

                                        <p>On 24<sup>th</sup> October 1945, <strong>J R Womersley</strong> of the Ministry of Supply Advisory Service on Statistical Methods was appointed as the Superintendent of the project. He then led to the establishment of  a Mathematics Division in the National Physical Laboratory (a national measurement standards Laboratory for UK) </p>
                                        <p>By the end of 1945, the Mathematics Division had four sections: general computing, punched-card equipment, mathematical statistics and the differential analyzer plus a total number of 27 staff . </p>
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                            <li>[1] David M Yates, <strong>Turing's Legacy</strong>, published by Science Museum London</li>
                            <li>[2] News from the National Physics Laboratory - <a target="_new" href = "http://www.npl.co.uk/publications/metromnia/issue8/">Metromnia Issue 8 - Summer 2000</a></li>
                            <li>[3] The Early British Computers by Simon H. Lavington - <a target="_new" href = "http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish.html">http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish.html</a></li>
                            <li>[4] History of computing, Turing's archive - <a target="_new" href = "http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/andersod/HoC/AlanTuringNet/Cat.php?Target=ACE">http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/andersod/HoC/AlanTuringNet</a></li>
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